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France imposes fines on Facebook Ireland and Google -Breaking

by Mike Robinson

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PARIS (Reuters) – France’s CNIL data privacy regulator said Thursday it had issued a fine to Google (NASDAQ;) 150 million euros ($169.38 millions) and Facebook Ireland (62.5 million), claiming that the U.S. technology companies had made it impossible for them to deny cookies.

According to a statement by the watchdog, “The CNIL found that youtube.com, facebook.com, and google.fr websites don’t allow cookies to be refused as easy as they permit to accept them”.

The CNIL claimed it would impose an extra penalty payment in the amount of 100,000 euro per day of delay.

($1 = 0.8856 euros)

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